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What is the proportion between them?

I told this exact thing to my gf few days ago and somehow she was mad at me for it

I completely agree. From my experience in Academia, what happens is, that university departments simply don't know better. They scramble together a course or program they think its needed, and shape it from THEIR perspective of what it should include.

Its like now, when every SaaS company scrambles a way to put AI into their product, just because they think they need to.

> Also, although PG disdains finance and management, many large problems are better addressed through people with skills in these areas IMO

I find this view from pg very narrow minded, and borderline ignorant. He is shaping his essay as in the role of higher education and academia is only to produce startup founders. Which is not, it is a way of a state investing into a labor force that is needed. As long as there are large corporate multinationals, there will be a need for finance, economics and yes, even management. Are a lot of that studies fugazi? Sure they are, but so are a lot of startups.

If everyone coming out of academia would be startup-like, corporations and other businesses simply wouldnt have the workforce for their machinery, and then some big shoot CEO would write blogs how Universities Should Prepare White Collars.

And indeed, reading period produced two trillion dollar companies, but this is statistical anomaly. You could just as well argue, that it keps economy afloat by educating up-coming workforce, but thats harder to prove.

The alternative to this is being also competent at leading.

> This is shockingly vapid and wishy-washy even for PG

He has been like this for a while now. His last few essays are simply advertisement for a startup accelerator. Conveniently, he also owns one of them.

Exactly. Competent at getting votes (and taking them away from competition) and incompetent at leading and being in power.

Can i already subscribe? I hope you decide to do it!

You don't have to censor, but you don't have to pay either

While laughing at the stereotype of French being on the street all the time

What if you are not from the northern US?

I agree with you, also about the strawberry analogy. I was quite surprised to read that author is 22 years old. So many young smart people around!

As per info on the site, author is not German and does not live in Germany (Russian living in Poland). Apparently, his name however is "German".

Best habit, by far. I'd also recommend taking a walk free of any devices. I leave my phone at home and walk through the park few mins away form my home.

I agree, very low-effort article